(September 11, 2014 at 10:37 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: Most scientists would disagree with you. That's why their assertions are called "theories".Scientists do not cloak assertions as "theories" in order to promote them as truth. Scientists build theories using knowledge and understanding obtained by experimentation and research, ie: facts.
You don't seem to understand what a scientific theory is, or how it is different from facts, or how it uses facts, or the method by which a theory may be strengthen, weakened, or dismissed altogether as we learn more. You're going to find that you are talking past a lot of us if you're working from the premise that scientists can make any claim as long as they refer to it as a "theory" and push it on an unsuspecting public as fact.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
